Ella deCastro Baron is a second generation Filipina American who lives with her family in southern California. Ella is a professor, hula dancer, and writer whose work has appeared in Last Exit, Fiction International, CityWorks Literary Journal, and various anthologies. Her memoir, Itchy Brown Girl Seeks Employment—a collective text of creative nonfiction—and her current work are ways Ella bears witness to her ethnic upbringing, inherited faith, and chronic illness, her mixed race family, and how it may or may not fit together.
